Wood-splicing tool



P. A MASTEL.

WOOD SPLICING TODL. APPLICATION HLED. AUG. 4, 919.

1,367,883. Patented Feb. 8, 1921.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIE.

IETER A. MASTEL, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, ASSIG-NOR OF ONE-HALF TO BARRETT & BARRETT, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, A CORPORATION.

WOOD-SPLICING TOOL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 8, 1921.

Application filed August 4, 1919. Serial No. 315,303.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat 1, PETER A. MASTEL, a citizen or" the United States, residing at St. Paul, in the county of Ramsey and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and useful lVood-Splicing Tool, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to in'iprovements in tools for splicing wooden parts together. it is especially designed for the splicing of illiard ones when new tip ends are to be substituted for split or worn out tips; but it may also be used for splicing or joining together endwise new parts, or new and old parts of wooden handles, chair legs, flag poles, fence posts, umbrella sticks and many other articles. 7 I

In the accompanying drawing: Figure l is a partly sectional sicc view of a billiarc cue onto which the front portion has been spliced by my improved tool. Fig. 2 is a side view of the male member of the tool. Fig. is a section on the line 3-3 in Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawing by reference numerals, 5 designates a portion of a billiard cue to which a new front part, 5* is spliced by a joint composed of an inside cone, 6, formed on the one and having a shoulder 7, which is preferably underdug some or giren a recess, 7*, and a hollow outside cone, 8, of the front piece 5, which is tightly fitted and glued or otherwise secured upon the cone 6.

In order to form said wooden cones quickly and accurately, I provide a special tool composed of a female member (not shown) and a male member; only the latter member will be described and claimed in this case. Said member is provided with a shank, 12 by which it may be secured in the tail-stock of a lathe, while the wooden part operated on may be held in a chuck carried by a spindle of the lathe. If the wooden piece is long the spindle is to be of the hollow or tubular type, so that the wood may extend through it. The tool may also be rotated and the wood pushed against it.

The shank 12 is formed with a tapered two-edged blade 33, having the sharp. edges 34' curved or converged at 35 toward the point 36. It also has a longitudinal rib, 37, at each side of it to stiiien it.

Secured upon the front end of the shank 12 by a screw 38, is a collar 39. Upon the front side of said collar is adjustably secured by a screw a cutter blade 41, having a 7 cutting edge 42 of such form and in such a position that when the tool is in operation to bore the conical hole in the socket 8, by its edges 3%35, said cutter 42 will so form the edge or". the socket, that it will lit the shoulder '7 and its recess 7* of the male cone 6 of the part 5 of the wood.

From the foregoing description it will readily be seen how the tool operates to form the female splice member. After both memhere are formed they are pressed tightly one into the other and secured either by glue or by a nail 43, or both glue and nails.

lVhat I claim is:

An auger for producing the socket part of a wood splice, said auger comprising a shank with a tapered two-edged blade havmg a blunt point, a collar fixed on the shank near said blade, and a cutter blade adjust 

